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Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich

1931- 2022

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1909- 1989

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Chernyaev, A. S.

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End of the Cold War

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Afghanistan

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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

President Ronald Reagan, Vice-President Bush, and oviet General Secretary Gorbachev

United States-Soviet Relations

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United States

Anatoly Dobrynin, 1977

Dobrynin, Anatoly Fedorovich

1919- 2010

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November 13, 1986	Politburo on Afghanistan The Politburo discuss the need for Soviet troops to withdraw from Afghanistan, the best way to do that, and set up a time table to withdraw troops.
October 31, 1988	Anatoly Chernyaev, Notes from a Meeting of the Politburo Gorbachev et al prepare for their upcoming UN visit, and discuss presenting their reformed policies, arms reductions, the implementation of perestroika, withdrawal of troops from Hungary, and overall Soviet-American relations.
June 20, 1988	Anatoly Chernyaev, Notes from a Meeting of the Politburo Anatoly Chernyaev’s notes from the Politburo session on June 20, 1988, during which military spending, party membership, the progress of perestroika, and CPSU organizational leadership were discussed.
March 24, 1988	Anatoly Chernyaev, Notes from a Meeting of the Politburo Notes from a meeting of the Politburo regarding Nina Andreeva, a Soviet scientist and political activist who accused Gorbachev of not being true communists and abandoning the Soviet system in her essay " I Cannot Forsake My Principles."
July 9, 1987	Anatoly Chernyaev, Notes from a Meeting of the Politburo Gorbachev and other Politburo members discussed the pressing issue of the return of Crimean Tatars to Crimea.
1996	Excerpts from Recollections by the Former Soviet Ambassador in North Korea Aleksandr Kapto Aleksandr Kapto reflects on the Soviet Union's normalization of relations with South Korea, and the consequential fallout in relations between North Korea and the USSR. According to Kapto, North Korea threatened to develop nuclear weapons and withdraw from the NPT as a result of Soviet-South Korean rapprochement.
January 26, 1990	Discussion of the German Question at a Private Meeting in the Office of the CPSU CC General Secretary In a conversation recorded by Chernyaev, Gorbachev candidly discusses the political situation in East and West Germany, the weakness of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), and the Soviet strategy for managing German reunification.
February 11, 1989	Information of I.A. Rogachev about the Visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in the PRC
March 11, 1985	Minutes of a CC CPSU Politburo Session Nominating Gorbachev for General Secretary CC CPSU Politburo Session nominating Gorbachev for General Secretary after the death of Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko. Many members of the politburo spoke in favor of Gorbachev for General Secretary. They make a unanimous recommendation to the Plenum of CC CPSU.
May 11, 1989	Soviet Record of Conversation between M.S. Gorbachev and US Secretary of State J. Baker Gorbachev and Baker discuss cuts in tactical nuclear weapons.